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|accepted_name=Arisaema dracontium
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Schott in H. W. Schott and S. L. Endlicher
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. W. Schott and S. L. Endlicher,Meletemata Botanica
|place=17. 1832
|year=1832
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|common_names=Green-dragon;dragon-root
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arum dracontium
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 964. 1753
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Muricauda dracontium
|authority=(Linnaeus) Small
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Araceae;Arisaema;Arisaema dracontium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Araceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Arisaema]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Arisaema dracontium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>1.5–9 dm. <b>Roots</b> radiating from apex of corm; corm to 8 cm diam. <b>Leaves</b> usually solitary; petiole medium green or purple-marked; blade pedately divided, leaflets (5–)7–13(–21), sessile or petiolulate, elliptic to oblanceolate, to 28 × 10 cm, apex acute to acuminate; central leaflet usually shorter than neighboring ones, these leaflets longest, outer progressively smaller. <b>Inflorescences</b>: s Spathe light green, sometimes marked with purple, convolute, 3–6(–12) cm; blade usually scarcely distinguished from tube; . sSpadix 6–20 cm (or longer), longer than spathe, apex tapering in long slender appendage to 15 cm. <b>Staminate</b> flowers with 2–4 stamens. <b>Fruits</b> oblong or pear-shaped, 7–13 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 1–2(–6), 3–5 mm diam. <b>2n</b> = 28, 56.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter (southern part of range)–late spring.
|habitat=Mesic to wet deciduous woods, thickets, and bottoms
|elevation=30–1200 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;e Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Reports of <i>Arisaema dracontium</i> occurring in New Hampshire and Rhode Island have not been substantiated by specimens. The species has also been reported from Nuevo Le&oacute;n and Veracruz, Mexico (E. Matuda 1954); more study is needed to determine if these plants are conspecific. Specimens with a wider spathe blade than is typical in <i>A. dracontium</i> have been collected in Florida and Georgia, and these forms may represent intermediates between <i>A. dracontium</i> and the Mexican species A. macrospathum Bentham, which has an expanded spathe blade. D. G. Huttleston (1953) treated A. macrospathum as a subspecies of <i>A. dracontium</i> in his dissertation, but this change in taxonomic status was never formally published.</p>
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name=Arisaema dracontium
|authority=(Linnaeus) Schott in H. W. Schott and S. L. Endlicher
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Muricauda dracontium
|basionyms=Arum dracontium
|family=Araceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter (southern part of range)–late spring.
|habitat=Mesic to wet deciduous woods, thickets, and bottoms
|elevation=30–1200 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;e Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. W. Schott and S. L. Endlicher,Meletemata Botanica
|publication year=1832
|special status=
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|genus=Arisaema
|species=Arisaema dracontium
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